Nothing to do with Mainstage but it happened to me with Aperture. Except they sell it now for 1/3 the price in the App Store that I paid for the disc version a few months prior. The only thing I can tell you is that at some point (date) is the cutoff no matter when that happens someone will be unhappy. They just had to make a decision and they made it.

This is the same move that made many clients of Pixelmator unhappy... It does seem odd that Apple couldn't (or couldn't bother to) find a way to make that migration easier.

+1,000,000 If they can and know to use Software Update for Aperture in my case why can't they give me credit in the Mac App Store and also for iLife '11 that came out before being added to the App Store. At least they could do this for Apple applications.

+1,000,000 If they can and know to use Software Update for Aperture in my case why can't they give me credit in the Mac App Store and also for iLife '11 that came out before being added to the App Store. At least they could do this for Apple applications.